Hi there...

could someone please give me some step -by-step instructions on how to make a 2 colour 3d flower? i see some around and the are marvelous! for eg. the tip of the petal goes from bright pink and end white...lovely!

I just want to know little tricks like: which color goes first on your brush, how to place it on the nail, how to shape it... etc.

thanks in advance

Hi
To do an individual petal, you place lay down a small dryish bead, in say bright pink, then you take an even smaller dryish bead in white, & place it on top of the first bead.
Then you push the pointed flags of your brush into the centre of the bead 'stack' lol, pushing rthe beads into a pointed petal shape.
What you get is a white liliy petal with pink edges.
Add 3 more petals, make a tiny bead in another colour for you flower centre.
Voila!
I'll try to upload a pic...
They're not great, but you get the idea!

easiest way to do the 2 colours is "double dipping" dip your brush in one colour first, then into your 2nd colour, while the first colour still on your brush. its trail and error pet, just just play till you come up with one you like

double dipping.
i usually do 3 colours
white first then dipinto maybe blue then pink the make sure you gently roll the small ball off so you leave the white underneath so when you press out you have the white at the very edge and the colours towards the centre

Hiya dont wanna sound stupid but.... what is double dipping??? xxx

thanx for the pointers girls!

I was just visiting the nailsmag site and ran into an image done by crystal. She does an amaizing job with nails and very detailed! I visited her site

www.crystalnails.pl

and i just wanted to know how she does such detailed and precise work with her flowers...if you look at the image where there are burgandy petals and white smaller ones with a hole in the middle... Can you do such work with acrylic? Because it looks as if she has done it with gel... im not quite sure... what do you think?

double dipping is where you dip your brush in your pwder and get a small ball then dip into another coloured powder so you have 2 colours on your brush.

this is what antony taught us on my design workshop.